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Vinita Vader

Research statement

I am currently a PhD student in Personality Psychology at University of Oregon. The theoretical premise for my research is that the study of Culture underlies the study of Personality and Values. I am interested in using machine learning techniques to build psychological mappings of people across societies and design a quantifiable model of culture. Psychometrics, building culture specific ( emic ) surveys, and applying quantitative methods to design methods for psychological data sets.

Relevant experince

Doctoral Researcher

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR

2019 - Current

  • MS thesis: High Dimensionality structure of English Language Type-nouns
  • Educational Data Science Specialization: Projects designed and executed include World Value Survey,Tutorial on functional programming, Hate Speech detection
  • Research
    • “Lexical study of Personality and Values of Hindi Language speakers” - Developing a comprehensive dictionary of personality and value relevant words in Hindi and developing a measure for Hindi speakers
    • “High Dimensionality structure of Persian Language Adjectives” - Finding the most robust model for adjective structure in Persian language
    • “Culture relevant groupings using Values and Personality” (Dissertation topic) - Developing a method to find cultural groups in a society based on thinking patterns. This project focuses on high dimensionality algorithms across cluster analysis, network analysis and PCA to understand the groups that can be formed
  • Teaching fellow

Teaching experience

University of Mumbai

Mumbai, India

2016 - 2018

  • Graduate courses: Statistics for Psychology, Dissertation Guide, Psychological Testing and Psychometrics Practicals
  • Undergraduate courses: Social Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Industrial Psychology, Experimental Psychology (Practicum and theory)

Gradute level Researcher

M.A. in Applied Psychology

Mumbai, India

2014 - 2016

  • Thesis: Working Memory Capacity in Caregivers of Alcoholics
  • Clinial intern - Mental status examinations; Assessments - MMPI, MCMI, Kamat- Binet Test of Intelligence, VSMS, Seguin-Form Board, Children Apperception Test, Rorschach Ink Blot Test; Diagnosis (DSM-5, ICD 10)

Other Publications and Posters (selected)

Factors affecting Academic Achievement in students : An empirical study - understanding the interaction between creativity, intelligence and academic achievement

Journal of Education and Planning. 2019; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32264.88328

N/A

2019

Vader, Purohit, and Pandit.

What Lies at the Center of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale? Network Analysis and Latent Structure of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale for Indian Data

Bombay Psychologist. 2019.

N/A

2019

Belhekar, Vader, Korgaonkar, and Dattakavi

Note on Iconic Sensory Memory and Sensory Memory

for Marathi encyclopedia on Psychology Marathi Vishwakosh

N/A

2020

Vader

Acculturation and Personality among Indian students using the NEO-PI-3

Poster for 2020 American Psychological Association

USA

2019

Heffern, Vader, Belhekar, Mellott

Personality Structure in Marathi and English for Maharashtrians: A Psycholexical Investigation

Paper presentation at Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference (SCCR) 2020

Seattle, USA

2020

Belhekar and Vader

MUFFI 2 – A culture sensitive measure of personality based on the Indian context

Poster presentation at Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference (SCCR) 2020

Seattle, USA

2020

Vader and Belhekar

The Five-Factor Model and Cultural dimensions in the Indian Context

Poster presentation American Psychological Association (2019)

USA

2019

Heffern, Vader, Belhekar, Mellott

Using Factor analysis and Network analysis to delineate Personality Structure among Indian College Students

Poster presentation American Psychological Association (2018)

USA

2018

Heffern, Vader, Belhekar, Mellott